A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.

Extensive evidence, including global temperature and sea ice data, shows Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.

Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the Pacific Ocean has found a str ...

A team of scientists from Bowling Green State University are currently en route to Antarctica in search of groundbreaking new data that could play a key role in the future of climate research.

At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...

USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of the Earth's enigmatic inner core, revealing for the ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

A new interactive map is the first of its kind, showing likely underground areas to explore for geologic hydrogen. This, ...

Internet users want to know what the strange doorway in Antarctica ice is- theories suggesting Bigfoot or an underground ...